Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Drosera pygmaea DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 1, 317 (1824)
Description
Stock extremely short. Lvs radical, appressed, rosulate; stipules scarious, up to 5 mm. long, trifid; segs laciniate; petioles flattened, glab., up to 6mm. long; lamina subpeltate, suborbicular, 1·5–2 mm. diam., clad in stalked glandular hairs. Peduncles solitary or few, filiform, up to 2.5 cm. long; fl. solitary, tetramerous. Sepals connate at base, ± oblong, up to 2 mm. long; petals white, up to 2.5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. Style branches 4, clavate. Capsule 4-valved, elliptic-oblong.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Phenology
Fruiting: Nov.–Feb.
Bibliography
de Candolle, A.P. 1824: Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Vol. 1. Treuttel et Würtz, Paris.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Nationally Vulnerable]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Relic]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Nationally Vulnerable]
